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author | Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> | 2009-01-07 08:45:46 -0800 |
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committer | Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> | 2009-01-07 08:45:46 -0800 |
commit | 22a9d645677feefd402befd02edd59b122289ef1 (patch) | |
tree | 9f1215cc8f7f0e1c36b03882b2926cc26ccfa5ff /kernel/Makefile | |
parent | ede6f5aea054d3fb67c78857f7abdee602302043 (diff) | |
download | lwn-22a9d645677feefd402befd02edd59b122289ef1.tar.gz lwn-22a9d645677feefd402befd02edd59b122289ef1.zip |
async: Asynchronous function calls to speed up kernel boot
Right now, most of the kernel boot is strictly synchronous, such that
various hardware delays are done sequentially.
In order to make the kernel boot faster, this patch introduces
infrastructure to allow doing some of the initialization steps
asynchronously, which will hide significant portions of the hardware delays
in practice.
In order to not change device order and other similar observables, this
patch does NOT do full parallel initialization.
Rather, it operates more in the way an out of order CPU does; the work may
be done out of order and asynchronous, but the observable effects
(instruction retiring for the CPU) are still done in the original sequence.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/Makefile')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/Makefile | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/Makefile b/kernel/Makefile index e1c5bf3365c0..2921d90ce32f 100644 --- a/kernel/Makefile +++ b/kernel/Makefile @@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ obj-y = sched.o fork.o exec_domain.o panic.o printk.o \ rcupdate.o extable.o params.o posix-timers.o \ kthread.o wait.o kfifo.o sys_ni.o posix-cpu-timers.o mutex.o \ hrtimer.o rwsem.o nsproxy.o srcu.o semaphore.o \ - notifier.o ksysfs.o pm_qos_params.o sched_clock.o cred.o + notifier.o ksysfs.o pm_qos_params.o sched_clock.o cred.o \ + async.o ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER # Do not trace debug files and internal ftrace files |